Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a short town hall meeting at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, Friday, to say thank you to the troops. Pace told the airmen, soldiers, sailors, and coast guardsmen in the audience, “I want to say thanks to you for all you do and all you have done, and unfortunately, some of the things that we are going to have to ask you to do in the future.”
The Air Force will finish restructuring the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program by the end of this year, achieve its first test launch of the ICBM by 2027, and reach initial operational capability by the early 2030s.



